TacticScaleWhat Curtiss-Wright Does & How It Makes Money (CW)
Updated October 2026 · reflects Curtiss-Wright's latest reported financials
Engineered components and systems for defense, aerospace, and nuclear power. It earns revenue by selling engineered products and systems to defense agencies, aircraft makers, nuclear power operators, and industrial customers, and adds service revenue from surface treatments, repairs, and U.S.
How Curtiss-Wright makes money
It earns revenue by selling engineered products and systems to defense agencies, aircraft makers, nuclear power operators, and industrial customers, and adds service revenue from surface treatments, repairs, and U.S. Navy ship maintenance.
What Curtiss-Wright does
Curtiss-Wright is a diversified engineering company, incorporated in 1929 and headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, that supplies mission-critical products to aerospace and defense, commercial nuclear power, process, and industrial markets. It operates in three segments. Aerospace & Industrial makes sensors, controls, and actuation components for commercial and military aircraft, power electronics and control systems for industrial and specialty vehicles, and surface technology services such as shot and laser peening. Defense Electronics provides commercial off-the-shelf embedded computing, flight test instrumentation, tactical communications, avionics, and weapons handling and stabilization systems. Naval & Power supplies naval propulsion and power equipment such as main coolant pumps, compact motors, generators, and steam turbines, as well as aircraft arresting systems. It also makes reactor coolant pumps, control rod drive mechanisms, and severe-service valves for commercial nuclear plants, and provides ship repair and maintenance for the U.S. Navy. Together, the segments give the company exposure to defense spending, commercial aerospace, and nuclear energy.
Products & services
- Embedded computing modules and processing equipment
- Flight test instrumentation and data acquisition systems
- Main coolant pumps and naval propulsion systems
- Reactor coolant pumps and control rod drive mechanisms
- Aircraft arresting systems
- Shot peening, laser peening, and engineered coatings
What is Curtiss-Wright worth?
On an owner-earnings DCF, Curtiss-Wright's most-likely value is about $399 versus a recent price near $513 (22% above fair value). But TacticScale only calls a stock undervalued when the price sits below its conservative no-growth floor (~$168) with a margin of safety — so the honest verdict here is “Fairly priced — no edge.” Fair value earns its keep only at the extremes, not in the wide middle.
Price sits in the normal range — fair value isn't actionable here; it earns its keep only when price drops below the no-growth floor, or runs to roughly double the optimistic case.
Analysis, not advice. Fair value is a margin-of-safety estimate from a deterministic owner-earnings DCF, not a price target or recommendation. See the full breakdown →
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